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Births
- 1662 – Samuel Wesley (Exeter), poet
- 1685 – Thomas Tickell (Queen's), poet
- 1826 – Francis Trevelyan Buckland (Christ Church), surgeon and natural historian
- 1893 – George Algernon West (Lincoln), Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954
- 1900 – Mary Cartwright (St Hugh's), mathematician
- 1906 – Bede Griffiths (Magdalen), Benedictine monk and missionary
- 1915 – Sir Philip Adams (Christ Church), diplomat
- 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald (Somerville), novelist
- 1927 – Robert Robinson (Exeter), radio and television presenter
- 1931 – James Anderson, cricketer
- 1942 – Gareth Stedman Jones (Lincoln and Nuffield), historian
- 1956 – Nancy-Ann DeParle (Balliol), director of the White House Office of Health Reform
- 1956 – Dominic Lawson (Christ Church), journalist
- 1979 – Thum Ping Tjin (Hertford), Singaporean swimmer
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Deaths
- 1758 – Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, Chancellor of the University 1715–1758
- 1773 – Andrew Stone (Christ Church), politician
- 1808 – Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (University), President of the Board of Trade 1786–1804
- 1854 – Henry Parry (Jesus), clergyman and antiquarian
- 1915 – John Rhys (Jesus and Merton), Celtic scholar and Principal of Jesus College
- 1928 – Eglantyne Jebb (Lady Margaret Hall), social reformer
- 1947 – Bernard Spilsbury (Magdalen), forensic pathologist
- 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers (Somerville), novelist
- 1977 – Lawrence Turner (Exeter), MP for Oxford 1950–1959
- 1997 – Reginald Victor Jones (Wadham and Balliol), scientific military intelligence expert
Other events
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